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And never do it in front of people outside the friend group, which is as indecorous and disloyal as family members airing their dirty laundry in public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The messages on chocolate bars were how the family would send notes to Godoy in prison, and this was how he would reply – by writing on dirty laundry taken out of the jail.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

For several hours on Wednesday, a fired public health official went before Congress and aired Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dirty laundry.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2025

The piece was toward the bottom of the page, tucked away like dirty laundry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

She studied me distastefully, like I was a bag of dirty laundry she’d been sent to fetch.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan


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